- 1.1.4
13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Why study law?
Truth?
Justice?
Beauty?
Is it useful?
Is it useful?
- Knowing substantive rights is power
- Knowing procedural rights is powerful
- Knowing legal analytics is empowering
What kind of power? To change the world.
Or to forbear ….
Lottery winners?
- Good evidence suggests winning the lottery does not make you happy.
Lottery winners?
- Good evidence suggests winning the lottery does not make you happy.
- Good evidence suggests increasing GDP does not make societies happier.
Lottery winners?
- Good evidence suggests winning the lottery does not make you happy.
- Good evidence suggests increasing GDP does not make societies happier.
- Would winning the legal lottery, so to say?
Lottery winners?
- Good evidence suggests winning the lottery does not make you happy.
- Good evidence suggests increasing GDP does not make societies happier.
- Would winning the legal lottery, so to say?
- And if not, was this class actually useful?
Happiness, a marginal approach
- Make money, but not too much
- Work, but not too much
- Keep your commute under 22 minutes
- Live near water, in a medium-sized city
- Find funny friends
- Reject comparison as a basis for self-worth